Hades
"Brother, that... will never happen. It can't... for a mutated dog?" He tried to keep the respect and reverence in his voice, but I could hear it slipping away as his face hardened.
I pulled the midnight coat over my shoulders, shrugging as I considered him through the mirror. "Watch your tone, Orion," my voice was soft, but my red eyes gleamed.
He blinked, eyes darting like he couldn't believe I had just said that to him. "Brother..."
"You heard me," I cut him off. "Today is the matrimony. I will not change my mind."
His brows disappeared into his hairline as though he was just now finding out about the wedding.
"You will forsake your race for… her?" His voice cracked with disbelief. "You would bind yourself to a creature so far beneath our kind that even the soil recoils from her touch?"
"Careful," I said again, quieter this time. That kind of quiet that rattled bones and left no doubt.
But Orion—Orion had never been good at reading lines until they bled.
